HP Systems Insight Manager 6.0 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX

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Table of Contents

1 Installation overview and requirements..........................................................6

First time install process overview..............................................................................................................6

Upgrade overview...................................................................................................................................6

System requirements................................................................................................................................6

HP-UX Central Management Server......................................................................................................6

HP-UX patches..............................................................................................................................8

Downloading and installing individual HP-UX patches.......................................................................8

Managed system requirements and recommendations.............................................................................9

Managed storage system..................................................................................................................13

Foreign language support.................................................................................................................14

HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager in HP Insight Control requirements.......................................................14

System support................................................................................................................................14

Hardware support............................................................................................................................14

2 Installing HP SIM on the CMS for the first time..............................................18

Preparing the system..............................................................................................................................18

Installing and configuring the software.....................................................................................................19

Tuning HP SIM (Optional) .....................................................................................................................21

Next steps............................................................................................................................................21

3 Setting up managed systems......................................................................23

Installing the required software on an HP-UX system...................................................................................23

Setting up managed storage systems.......................................................................................................24

Setting up managed systems using the HP SIM interface.............................................................................24

Installing SMI-S providers.......................................................................................................................24

Verifying SSL........................................................................................................................................24

Configuring SMI-S providers...................................................................................................................24

4 Configuring HP SIM..................................................................................25

Configuring HP SIM using the First Time Wizard.......................................................................................25

Configuring HP SIM using the Options menu............................................................................................26

Configuring HP-UX systems manually.......................................................................................................27

5 Upgrading HP SIM...................................................................................29

6 Uninstalling HP SIM..................................................................................31

Uninstalling HP SIM from an HP-UX system...............................................................................................31

7 Configuration options................................................................................32

CPU utilization during data collection......................................................................................................32

Overview........................................................................................................................................32

Implementation................................................................................................................................32

GUI time-out policy...............................................................................................................................32

Overview........................................................................................................................................32

Implementation................................................................................................................................33

HP SIM audit log configuration...............................................................................................................33

Overview........................................................................................................................................33

Implementation................................................................................................................................33

Configuring task results..........................................................................................................................34

8 Troubleshooting........................................................................................36

Data collection.....................................................................................................................................36

Installation...........................................................................................................................................36

Memory ..............................................................................................................................................36

Servicecontrol Manager and HP SIM ......................................................................................................36

Upgrade..............................................................................................................................................37

Security ..............................................................................................................................................38

9 Support and other resources......................................................................39

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